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It's truly mind-boggling to think that this moment in 1989 represents (for now) just shy the MIDPOINT of their career.Quote
TooTough
Great find, thanks.
I´ve never seen it completely.
"It´s 27 years in the business for the Stones"
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keefriff99It's truly mind-boggling to think that this moment in 1989 represents (for now) just shy the MIDPOINT of their career.Quote
TooTough
Great find, thanks.
I´ve never seen it completely.
"It´s 27 years in the business for the Stones"
I mean, they were considered old, decrepit fossils in 1989, and yet here they are 29 years later.
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keefriff99It's truly mind-boggling to think that this moment in 1989 represents (for now) just shy the MIDPOINT of their career.Quote
TooTough
Great find, thanks.
I´ve never seen it completely.
"It´s 27 years in the business for the Stones"
I mean, they were considered old, decrepit fossils in 1989, and yet here they are 29 years later.
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stonehearted
Steel Wheels the halfway point of their career?
Their set lists in recent decades seem to indicate their halfway point as 1972, and their own authorized 50th anniversary documentary film seems to reinforce that.
They looked young in 1989? Charlie with his frosty white hair and Bill with his puffy rumpled skin?
They didn't look old, but they didn't look young; they looked like what they were -- middle aged.
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GasLightStreet
According to publishings in mid-July of 1989 the tour was to start in Buffalo September 1 and Philly wasn't until Sept 21.
STEEL WHEELS Press Conference NYC
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GasLightStreet
That tour was really only their second tour at making MONEY.
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GasLightStreet
For 1981 they made $50 million or so. That was A LOT back then. The stage was a bunch of wood, the backdrop was some old sheets... hardly a wardrobe... no big screens or any content that would happen 10 years later...
Ha ha. Just a bit sarcastic but you get the point.
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GasLightStreet
For 1981 they made $50 million or so. That was A LOT back then. The stage was a bunch of wood, the backdrop was some old sheets... hardly a wardrobe... no big screens or any content that would happen 10 years later...
Ha ha. Just a bit sarcastic but you get the point.
+ they had a sponsor in 1981. Huge tour - before the giga stadium tours would be common practice for the biggest bands.
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GasLightStreet
For 1981 they made $50 million or so. That was A LOT back then. The stage was a bunch of wood, the backdrop was some old sheets... hardly a wardrobe... no big screens or any content that would happen 10 years later...
Ha ha. Just a bit sarcastic but you get the point.
+ they had a sponsor in 1981. Huge tour - before the giga stadium tours would be common practice for the biggest bands.
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GasLightStreet
According to publishings in mid-July of 1989 the tour was to start in Buffalo September 1 and Philly wasn't until Sept 21.
STEEL WHEELS Press Conference NYC
The dates mentioned here are correct. I was seeing these dates at the time, and assumed that Buffalo was 'locked in'.
Luckily, for me, it wasn't, and the fates conspired to end up with me sitting just behind Jo Wood, Shirley Watts (etc) in the stadium in Philly on opening night - elsewhere noted correctly as 31st August.
What a night.
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GasLightStreet
That tour was really only their second tour at making MONEY.
Yeah. But 1981 was 50% in arenas with just 8-20.000 capacity. Not enough to get very rich forever. 1989 was only big stadiums with the exception of East Troy and Atlantic City.